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In the discussion thread: The War on Drugs is really just a war on Black People [View all]

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 10:39 AM

ananda (12,494 posts)

26. The whole criminal justice system and prison industry..

.. serves to abuse the poor and minorities, make millions off their
incarceration, and conveniently for the rich and the Reeps
disenfranchises those same millilons.

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32 replies	Author	Time	Post
The War on Drugs is really just a war on Black People [View all]	MrScorpio	Oct 2012	OP
Let's end it. n/t	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#1
K & R	dchill	Oct 2012	#2
Yep.	Iris	Oct 2012	#3
k/r...I would say a war on the poor, but yeah it hits black people disproportionately.	limpyhobbler	Oct 2012	#4
I definitely agree however	theinquisitivechad	Oct 2012	#5
If you pass a joint to someone you are technically a "purveyor"..	Fumesucker	Oct 2012	#9
There are.	Igel	Oct 2012	#11
obama's drug war is racist? hmmm nt	msongs	Oct 2012	#6
President Obama didn't start it.	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#10
nixon. 1971.	HiPointDem	Oct 2012	#13
There we go. He wanted to fight the hippies. n/t	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#14
no. the 'hippies' got their drugs without many serious repercussions, and were fading by 1971	HiPointDem	Oct 2012	#16
Ahh, so it was racist from the time the term was coined.	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#20
pretty much. but just 'racist' doesn't cover it.	HiPointDem	Oct 2012	#24
True. It's racist, classist (given that it disproportionately affects the poor) and...	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#27
Always referred to it as "Nixon's Revenge"	rurallib	Oct 2012	#19
It dovetailed very neatly with Nixon's Southern Strategy.	truebluegreen	Oct 2012	#25
You know damn well Obama didn't start that war....either....good try though	uponit7771	Oct 2012	#18
+ Just for being one of the stupidest comments and a strawman. n/t	vaberella	Oct 2012	#31
I would say people of color, seems latinos get quite a bit of it particularly	Lionessa	Oct 2012	#7
Yup yup yup...Just brown and darker. n/t	vaberella	Oct 2012	#32
It's a war on personal freedom	former-republican	Oct 2012	#8
kr	HiPointDem	Oct 2012	#12
I don't use drugs	Aerows	Oct 2012	#15
Yup	ismnotwasm	Oct 2012	#17
careful, you might start to sound like a libertarian	quinnox	Oct 2012	#21
Criminalizing drug use was also a means of selective disenfranchisement.	Tanuki	Oct 2012	#22
With "racialized" drugs, as mentioned above, such as crack in the 80's, combined with...	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#23
And Democrats went along with it.	Comrade Grumpy	Oct 2012	#29
This isn't really a partisan issue so much as a racist/classist one.	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#30
The whole criminal justice system and prison industry..	ananda	Oct 2012	#26
In a nutshell. That's why we have to fight for-profit prisons, too. n/t	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#28

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